Spurs are doing an Arsenal as they look to rename White Hart Lane station October 12, 2016 Tottenham Hotspur wants to rename White Hart Lane station, which is fine with Transport for London (TfL), but apparently the club will have to shell out £12m to do so. The North London football club wants the London Overground station renamed Tottenham Hotspur station ahead of the opening of its new £400m stadium. It's not the [...]
London travel disruption: Delays into London Liverpool Street between St Pancras and Blackfriars October 12, 2016 Londoners are facing delays on a number of forms of transport this morning, as the Southern rail strikes continue. Trains between London St Pancras and Blackfriars are delayed due to a broken down train. Trains between London St Pancras International and London Blackfriars may be delayed by up to 15 minutes because of a broken [...]
Gatwick’s partnering with Bluecity to roll out electric car-sharing October 12, 2016 Gatwick is upping its green credentials by partnering up with electric car-sharing firm Bluecity. A new electric point-to-point car-sharing service is being rolled out at the Airport to make it easier for passengers travelling to and from the airport – as well as making their journeys more environmentally-friendly. Read more: Gatwick gets my vote for [...]
Chris Grayling has revealed a £70m fund for compensation and road safety projects along the route of HS2 October 12, 2016 Transport secretary Chris Grayling has revealed £70m of funding for communities along the route of HS2 between London and the Midlands. The funding will be used to improve access to nearby countryside, and conserve the natural environment along the route, as well as supporting local economies disrupted by construction. £40m of the total fund will [...]
RMT accepts offer from Southern Rail for talks on Wednesday October 11, 2016 Fresh talks will go ahead tomorrow in an attempt to break the deadlock between Southern Rail and the Rail and Maritime Transport (RMT) union. Charles Horton, the beleaguered boss of Southern Rail, today offered to meet with the RMT to try and halt ongoing industrial action. Read more: Southern Rail commuters had very British responses to today's train [...]
TfL signs £17.6m advertising contract with Outdoor Plus October 11, 2016 Transport for London (TfL) has signed up Outdoor Plus as its advertising partner in a £17.6m contract to bring digital advertising screens across road underpasses in the capital. TfL said the network of roadside screens would generate at least £13m to reinvest in modernising the transport network over the next ten years. Initially, Outdoor Plus [...]
Government watchdog warns taxpayers stand to lose £22.5m should Garden Bridge project collapse October 11, 2016 The National Audit Office (NAO) has announced the findings of its investigation into the use of public funds to pay for one of Boris Johnson’s projects as London Mayor: the Garden Bridge. And it’s not impressed. Meg Hillier MP, chair of the committee of public accounts, said: “It worries me that whenever the Garden Bridge [...]
Driverless cars have officially hit the UK’s roads for the first time October 11, 2016 Watch out Google and Uber – driverless cars are about to hit the roads of the UK and they've been created by our very own homegrown tech expertise. The pod-like vehicles will be tested on the roads of Milton Keynes for the first time today, in the latest breakthrough in the government's ambitious driverless car strategy. After 18 months [...]
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan gears up for charge on London’s most polluting vehicles October 10, 2016 Sadiq Khan has started the formal consultation before an emissions surcharge – “T-charge” – for older polluting vehicles is introduced in October 2017. Cars, vans, minibuses and heavy vehicles that don’t meet the Euro 4/IV emission standard will pay £10 to enter the congestion charge zone. It will predominantly be for those registered in 2005 or [...]
Don’t tell the black cabs: Brits can’t get enough of Uber as UK profits and revenues double in 2015 October 10, 2016 Uber drivers in the UK raked in more than £100m in fares last year, doubling revenues and profits at the disruptive transport app. The taxi service's holding company in Britain, Uber London, recorded a 105 per cent uplift in turnover to £23.3m in 2015, according to records filed on Companies House. This was up from [...]